Abstract

Ever since NATO's intervention in Kosovo in 1999 academics across various disciplines have been investigating both the causes and consequences of this event. Scholars from the comparative politics track focused mainly on conflict analysis and sought to discern patterns in domestic politics that made this war different from the early wars of disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. On their part, international relations scholars paid more attention to the conflict resolution measures taken by the international community. Yet, they became genuinely drawn to the subject only after the war showed that it could have global implications: on the conduct of military intervention in a post‐bipolar world, on issues of sovereignty and international administration of post‐conflict regions, and on large refugee flows, among other things.